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The Xiaozhai Tiankeng has been well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step staircase has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism. [2]
Explorers found a large area of wild plantain (Heliconia) species at the bottom, as well as square bamboos (Chimonobambusa quadrangularis) [8] with thorns 2 cm to 3 cm long growing around its joints. [9] An unidentified species of eagle was also found inside the sinkhole, living in a family, after which the tiankeng was named. [3]
But peering into one recently discovered sinkhole in the hilly outlying regions of southern China, one finds a lush forest down below with ancient towering trees. It's a place they call "tiankeng ...
Shaanxi tiankeng cluster is a group of 19 karst sinkholes in Shaanxi Province, China. The discovery was made in February 2016 and announced by geologists on November 24, 2016. [1] Located within a 200 km-long karst landform belt in the southwest part of the province near Hanzhong City, the cluster is one of the largest on Earth. [2]
Remnants of China's biggest rocket landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its components destroyed upon re-entry into the atmosphere, ending days of speculation over where the debris ...
An enormous sinkhole swallowed a bus and pedestrians in northwest China, sparking an explosion, killing six people and leaving four more missing, state media said Tuesday. Sinkholes are not ...
The deepest blue hole in the world is the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Chetumal Bay, which was found to have a depth of more than 420 metres (1,380 ft) in 2024. [ 3 ] The second deepest is the Dragon Hole , or Longdong, in the South China Sea at 300.89 metres (987 ft) deep, [ 4 ] while the third deepest blue hole in the world is Dean's Blue Hole at ...
Commuters waiting for the train in China were swallowed by a sinkhole that suddenly opened up beneath their feet.